English Direct Enrollment (EDE)
English Composition Preparation - EDE 10
https://courses.vccs.edu/courses/EDE10-EnglishCompositionPreparation
Effective: 2020-01-01
Course Description
Provides academic skills and support for introductory composition. Students will identify and apply academic skills including critical reading, writing, thinking, and research. Upon successful completion of EDE 10, instructors recommend enrollment in EDE 11/ENG 111 or ENG 111 or ENG 115/ENG 131.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
This course prepares students to be recommended for enrollment in EDE 11/ENG 111 or ENG 111 or ENG 115/131.
Course Objectives
- Review of Critical Processes
- Identify reading, writing, thinking, and basic research processes
- Critical Reading
- Implement vocabulary
- Identify main ideas/support details
- Apply reading strategies
- Make inferences
- Critical Writing
- Develop pre-writing strategies
- Create sentences and paragraphs
- Demonstrate proficiency in grammar/mechanics
- Critical Thinking
- Make connections
- Solve problems
- Critical Research
- Identify and understand plagiarism
- Identify resources
- Recognize academic documentation and formatting
Major Topics to be Included
- Reading
- Writing
- Thinking
- Basic research processes
English Composition Readiness - EDE 11
https://courses.vccs.edu/courses/EDE11-EnglishCompositionReadiness
Effective: 2020-01-01
Course Description
Provides academic support for successful completion of ENG 111. Students will identify and apply academic skills including critical reading, writing, thinking, and introductory research.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
This course provides academic support for successful completion of ENG 111.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Corequisite: ENG 111
Course Objectives
- Identify and implement critical processes - in reading, writing, thinking, and research as defined in EDE 11 and ENG 111.
- Critical Reading - identify basic rhetorical knowledge and use active reading strategies alongside ENG 111.
- Critical Writing and Conventions - compose and apply the writing process and conventions
- Critical Thinking - show critical thinking skills about various texts from EDE 11 and ENG 111
- Critical Research - demonstrate effective research processes for EDE 11 and ENG 111.
Major Topics to be Included
- Critical reading
- Writing
- Thinking
- Introductory research